1. Matt, Jess and Rich from Birmingham are regular buyers at the Malvern Flea & Collectors Fair. In January, they bought this mounted wild boar’s head from Stoke-on-Trent dealer Chris Munn’s stall, promptly renaming it ‘Boar-is Johnson’.
2. These 19th century Chinese dowry boxes, ticketed at £450 from Anthemion Antiques in Leominster, came from a house of “world travellers,” said dealer Joanna Richards. The inscriptions are believed to mean fidelity, happiness and wealth.